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The TownSquare Census: 65,289 Visits, 29 Ghost Towns, and a Serious Case of Clerk’s Cramp
https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/blog/posts/townsquare-in-numbers-july-2026/
Published: August 4, 2026 16:49
The Gazette has counted July: 65,289 daily unique town-visits, 55 new registrations, 36 newly verified towns, and no entirely unsociable hour.
Gazette Notice: a football has entered the Square
https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/blog/posts/soccer-ball-gazette/
Published: July 14, 2026 13:58
A free soccer-ball add-on now lets visitors settle important civic matters by running into a ball.
Gazette Notice: the Town Weather Office has opened
https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/blog/posts/weather-office-gazette/
Published: July 13, 2026 11:00
The Town Weather Office can arrange clear skies, rain, snow, or storms for everyone in a TownSquare and has issued a ruling on umbrellas.
Gazette Notice: the cartographers have at last learned what roads are
https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/blog/posts/map-roads-gazette/
Published: July 12, 2026 16:01
After a period of firm instruction, the TownSquare cartographers have stopped drawing ruler-straight accusations across forests and now produce maps with proper roads.
Dev Log: when map lines start behaving like roads
https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/blog/posts/map-roads/
Published: July 12, 2026 16:01
The TownSquare map is learning to treat connections as roads: curved, layered, ranked by importance, and routed around the landscape.
Turn your message board into a meetup invite
https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/blog/posts/meetup-invite/
Published: July 2, 2026 17:10
Your message board doesn't just have to hold static text. Post a date and time on it, and it becomes an invitation: everyone who reads it knows exactly when to come back and be in the square together.
The TownSquare Community Now Has a Town Hall
https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/blog/posts/townhall/
Published: July 2, 2026 10:00
The TownSquare community now has a Town Hall: a place for longer discussions, feature requests, and sharing your own TownSquare with others. Unlike the fleeting conversations that happen in town squares themselves, the Town Hall is designed for ideas that…
Put your TownSquare in a livestream overlay
https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/blog/posts/livestream-overlay/
Published: July 1, 2026 18:05
TownSquare Plus sites can copy a browser-source overlay URL from the admin Add-ons page, with transparent or solid-color backgrounds for livestream scenes.
One hundred towns on the map
https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/blog/posts/one-hundred-towns/
Published: June 29, 2026 23:00
TownSquare now has 100 verified sites on the map, nearly 330,000 messages exchanged, and a growing network of signposts linking one inhabited corner of the web to the next.
A tiny "who's here" counter for your pages
https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/blog/posts/presence-counter/
Published: June 29, 2026 20:40
A lightweight "N people here" badge you can drop on any page. It links to your town square without loading the whole square.
A few small add-ons for your square
https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/blog/posts/plus-addons/
Published: June 28, 2026 23:00
Optional extras for TownSquare Plus — hats, wandering cats, and Telegram pings when someone says hello.